Ecosystem Partner Manager

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

JR59356 Ecosystem Partner Manager

Ecosystem Partner Manager

At Micron we are transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. The memory and storage we build helps make everything from AI servers to ultra-portable laptops. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities – because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. Come join the Storage Business Unit (SBU) as an Ecosystem Partner Manager where you will help define and execute Micron's storage vision. You will work with external ecosystem partners and align internally with engineering, product management, marketing, and sales teams to define world-leading storage solutions.

The Ecosystem Partner Manager will be responsible for managing and developing strategic partnerships within the storage ecosystem. You will work with our ecosystem partners to identify partner opportunities to make our storage products better, define a compelling ecosystem, leverage partners’ go to market programs, and increase Micron’s brand equity. You will help partners and internal stakeholders analyze and anticipate needs, establish requirements, and identify focus areas for our joint technologies – all while creating value for our customers and Micron.

You will need technical domain expertise and strong business acumen to provide analysis of new technologies and architectures while simultaneously judging the market potential of those emerging solutions. Your responsibilities will be to, but are not limited to:

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate strong relationships with key partners and Micron product management to build better solutions. Establish and maintain strong relationships with key partner stakeholders including regular partner interlocks/strategy meetings.

• Understand the Micron solid state drive roadmap comprehensively and ensure alignment with product management to optimize roadmap execution.

• Lead initiatives to build a solid partner ecosystem with clearly understood and achievable fiscal benefit to Micron. Maintain an expert level understanding of the partners assigned and their market segments while being attentive to new and emerging markets and technologies.

• Exhibit thought leadership by identifying how to leverage the ecosystem.

• Understand and maintain internal high-level roadmaps and technology futures of key partners.

• Drive Micron product qualification on reference design platforms at assigned chipset accounts to enable customer design wins.

• Work with outbound marketing to ensure alignment on product messaging, opportunities to leverage, and partner co-marketing.

• Regularly and actively communicate across the organization to ensure understanding and alignment for all identified focus partner initiatives.

• Timely negotiation and execution of NDAs/contracts with partners.

Qualifications:

• Program management skills: Must be capable of driving processes across a matrixed organization.

• Command skills: Must be capable of driving stakeholders up to and including executives, despite stakeholders often having other competing priorities.

• Communication skills: Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Mandarin to clearly articulate processes to relevant stakeholders, especially executives. Must be able to summarize and communicate regular updates to executives.

• Technical knowledge: Must have working knowledge of SSD/NAND technologies and storage/compute architectures for servers and PCs. Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint, is required.

• Professional experience: 8+ years of demonstrated ability in technical marketing, system engineering, application engineering, field application engineering, business development, or ecosystem partner management.

• Collaborative skills: Must be able to work with cross-functional teams and have the maturity to interact directly with senior executives across departments, as well as providing leadership to teams on the implementation of strategic initiatives.

• Regional ecosystem knowledge: Must be familiar with the ecosystem of silicon and software providers in Asia (Taiwan, China, APAC). Preferred candidates will have existing relationships with global ecosystem players based in Taiwan (e.g., Mediatek, Insyde, Phison, SMI, etc.) and/or local ecosystem teams (e.g. Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, etc.). 

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent; advanced degree preferred.

Other requirements:

• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.
To learn more, please visit micron.com/careers
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
To request assistance with the application process and/or for reasonable accommodations, please contact at [email protected].

Micron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.

Micron does not charge candidates any recruitment fees or unlawfully collect any other payment from candidates as consideration for their employment with Micron.